Kommi: Most of the photoshop functions put a toolbar up at the top where you can turn anti-aliasing off before using the tool. I have not however figured out how to keep it from doing it when resizing an image.

In photoshop, to remove anti-aliasing in scaling images make sure you use "Nearest Neighbor" interpolation (you can set it in the General preferences or when doing certain functions like Image Size...).

Also, as zparticle mentioned, for the selection tools (marquees + lassos), make sure anti-aliasing is off in the Option mini-dialog (choose Show Options from the Window menu). This is all for Photoshop 5.0 - it may be slightly different in the newer versions.

As for the sprite rip from Ragnarok Online, chances are, they drew the line art on paper, scanned it in, cleaned it up, and colored it in something like Photoshop. The colors chosen give a painted feel to it, but on closer examination, you can certainly see that great care was taken at the pixel level.

A good place to "hang-out" and see pixelation artists at play is "pixelation.swoo.net". Very neat stuff.

Man, that is the best freaking site I've been to in a good long while. Great great stuff going on there! Makes me really anxious to start working on my old-school style RPG (think Tales of Destiny. There was some genuine ART in that game).

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